"1984 is a great fiction novel to read..."
-- Rep. Madison Cawthorn

"I remember 20 years old going to Trier, Germany and trying to find the home of Karl Marx cuz, y'know -- 1848 he wrote Mein Kampf. I wanted to know what it was all about."
-- Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer

"This is going to go away without a vaccine. It's gonna go away, and we're not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time."
-- Trump on COVID-19, May 2020

100,000
-- average number of new COVID-19 infections per day in the U.S.

"We're now dealing with lunatics. These are the same people that said, 'If you got the vaccine, life goes back to normal.' Are you going to believe them now? Because they lied to us, because that never happened, and clearly, they don't believe in something called freedom."
-- Sean Hannity on vaccine mandates

"If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn't woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose. Everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has."
-- Trump

"You will not wear a mask in this church...DO NOT GET VACCINATED!...I've told you the whole time this election was fraudulent. We've got so much proof the only people that can deny it are crack-smoking, demon-possessed leftists."
-- pastor Greg Locke of the Global Vision Bible Church

"It was a two-year phenomenon and then it was over. That's what happens with pandemics, they don't last for decades unless you drag these things out."
-- Sen. Ron Johnson on the Spanish Flu, which killed 50 million people worldwide

"I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it, but I will bang it down for the American people."
-- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

"Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me [and the Republican Congressmen]."
-- Trump to acting AG Jeffrey Rosen and acting deputy AG Richard Donoghue, 12/27/20